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Are you thinking about maybe using Google to help manage your passwords? If you’re coming from a different password manager service, then here’s what you need to do to import your passwords to Google Password Manager.
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Using a password manager or web browser to store all of your login credentials is a convenient and secure way of managing access to your accounts, but you don’t necessarily want to keep all of your passwords in the same place forever. Maybe the pricing structure has changed in the app you’re using, or you just want to upgrade to something more sophisticated.
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With that in mind, we’ve gone through some of the most well-known password managers and password-remembering web browsers on the market right now to assess how easy each of them make it to export your usernames and passwords in a format that’s going to be easily understandable by another service. Check to make sure that the password management service you’re switching to allows you to import passwords, and which format they support.